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    #2582
    [Deleted User]
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    Where are all the bottle banks in the area please? My uncle just moved here and can't find any. Doesn't do social media I'm afraid.



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    #2583
    jimmyendless
    Registered Users Posts: 619 ✭✭✭jimmyendless


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120836641#Comment_120836641

    My local one is beside this playground in monksland. https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Playground+Monksland/@53.4238061,-7.9826746,21z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x485c49d73089fe93:0xd1a6c44dbda0494e!8m2!3d53.4239373!4d-7.9828921!16s%2Fg%2F11g2npm74y?entry=ttu



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    #2584
    rn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭rn


    According to westmeath coco you've also got bottle banks at the fair green car park, coosan church and in the car park in connacht street - at the vet surgery. And there's some in dunnes stores montree



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    #2585
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    Fk me, the Athlone buses (diesel) went to Carlow town and this is the STARTING service from day 1

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    Meanwhile here we can't even use the bus for late night shopping on a Thursday

    Best of luck to Carlow, nothing against the place, just frustrating to see its possible yet lacking here



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    #2586
    rn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭rn


    In fairness it's a good schedule for carlow.



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    #2587
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120844042#Comment_120844042

    Aye its a fantastic schedule, first bus 06:25, last bus 00:25

    That's amazing! Lucky feckers



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    #2588
    roosterman71
    Registered Users Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    Why is there so many buses going to Carlow from Athlone? I presume it passes through a host of towns on the way and stops in each. 37 buses a day though seems mental

    My bad, it's a local route in Carlow. I thought it was some new route between Athlone and Carlow. No more cans for me tonight



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    #2589
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    Was able to get a closer look at the new bridge

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    I won't know until I get to try it on a wet day but I've a feeling that metal surface is going to be lethal when wet

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    It'll probably be fine and I'm worrying over nothing



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    #2590
    rn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭rn


    I see one of our electric bus had an embarrassing breakdown in the centre of town during the week. Not good for establishing a reputable and reliable bus service. But it's new technology and I guess we have to expect problems.



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    #2591
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,542 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    Bridge to open August 8 according to the Windo.



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    #2592
    martin1
    Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭martin1


    So like it or not, the new bridge is now a reality.

    Talk now is of a name for it.

    I only hope they don't name it after a person. Every second road or street in town is named after someone or other. Its so boring. Dr Jim Keane road being the latest. Who or what was his claim to fame??



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    #2593
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,542 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    Id love something named after Turley O Connor or Amby Fogarty to highlight a glorious time in the football team's history.

    If we cant name it after a person, then maybe "Redundant Bridge"?



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    #2594
    rn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭rn


    I think it's a great asset to take bikes off the main town bridge. Beats reducing the town bridge to a single lane to accommodate bikes.

    Those would be interesting names to throw on it. Up there with the "Dessie Dolan" bridge...



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    #2595
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,862 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Mary Ó'Rourke bridge must be the favourite if any bookie is running a book.

    I'd prefer John McCormack myself.



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    #2596
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,542 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    John McCormack already has the college hall and a statue of him. Enough with John McCormack. Time to honour someboydy from the most recent 100 years.

    Somebody more modern needs to be honoured. Im not sure if MOR is applicable, she lost 2 elections in her later career.



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    #2597
    roosterman71
    Registered Users Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    Can we not just come up with a name that people will use? No one, and I mean no one will refer to the bridge as "Mary O'Rourke Bridge". It'll be known as the bike bridge or the new bridge or something simple. This craic of naming things after people is done to death.



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    #2598
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,862 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Actually, come to think of it "Boxer Bridge" has an alliterative quality to it.



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    #2599
    martin1
    Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭martin1


    How about "Jadotville Bridge" ?



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    #2600
    rn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭rn


    The flood defence is the Boxers' Wall... who is worried about melting ice caps?Not athlone thanks to The Boxer.

    The unity Bridge. Bringing Connacht and Leinster closer together. It cost us two mature trees. And the nation's tax payers 6 million!



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    #2601
    TomOnBoard
    Registered Users Posts: 5,109 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    Just call it Cromwell's Way....


    Linking Hell and Connaught...



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    #2602
    roosterman71
    Registered Users Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877346#Comment_120877346

    Surely it being the new crossing, then "New Cromwells Way"



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    #2603
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877381#Comment_120877381

    Because the old cromwell way didn't turn out so good



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    #2604
    roosterman71
    Registered Users Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    The new one will be better



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    #2605
    martin1
    Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭martin1


    How about "bellonyerbike" Bridge

    It's got a nice ring to it...boom boom😄



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    #2606
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120873613#Comment_120873613

    Can't call it the New Bridge, the bypass Bridge is still the New Bridge.



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    #2607
    martin1
    Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭martin1


    If my memory serves me correctly that bypass bridge was given a name.. something like " the shannon way bridge " or something equally ridiculous.



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    #2608
    AdrianG08
    Registered Users Posts: 905 ✭✭✭AdrianG08


    Andy Myler bridge.



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    #2609
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,542 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    I would actually LOVE it if it got called after Andy. A great couple of seasons this man had with us.


    #sellMcnevin



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    #2610
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    It won't be named after anyone living



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    #2611
    Choochtown
    Registered Users Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Choochtown



    "Jacksepticeye Bridge" has a ring to it.



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